Binding: Hardcover
Description: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY - NC - ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East proposes a profound rethink of the complex relationship between Europe - defined here as the European Union and its members - and the states of the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa (MEN a) Europe's 'southern neighbours'. These relations are examined through a borderlands prism that conceives of this interaction as of one between an empire of sorts which seeks to export its order beyond the border and the empire's southern borderlands. Focusing on trade relations on the one hand and the cooperation on migration borders and security on the other the book revisits the historical origins and modalities of Europe's selective rule transfer to MEN a states the interests underwriting these policies and the complex dynamics marking the interaction between the two sides over a twenty - year period (1995 - 2015). It shows that within a system of structurally asymmetric economic relations from which Europe and MEN a elites benefit the most single MEN a governments have been co - opted into the management of border and migration control where they act as Europe's gatekeepers. Combined with specific policy choices of MEN a governments Europe's selective expansion of its rules practices and disaggregated borders have in fact contributed to rising socio - economic inequalities and the strengthening of authoritarian rule in the 'southern neighbourhood' with Europe tacitly tolerating serious violations of the rights of refugees and migrants at its fringes. Challenging the self - proclaimed benevolent nature of European policies and the notion of Fortress Europe alike the findings of this study contribute to broader debates on power dependence and interdependence in the discipline of International Relations.
Title: Borderlands Europe And The Mediterranean Middle East
Author(s): Del Sarto Raffaella A. (Associate Professor Of Middle East Studies Associate Professor Of Middle East Studies Johns Hopkins University School Of Advanced International Studies)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198833550
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 9/15/2021
Category: Eu & European Institutions